"Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like……" — Virginia Woolf

"Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk."

— Virginia Woolf

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642 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf has 642 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly,…
If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be…
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung…
I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I…
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost…
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to…
It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet…
To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how…
The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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